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RISAT-2BR1
Indian Military SAR Reconnaissance Satellite · ISRO (for Indian Ministry of Defence)
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RISAT-2BR1 gives India something most nations still can't buy off the shelf: the ability to photograph anywhere on Earth, day or night, through monsoon clouds thick enough to blind every optical satellite India owns. Its radar delivers under-a-meter resolution regardless of weather — a capability India built specifically because its most strategically sensitive borders, in the Himalayas and along its coasts, are cloud-covered for months at a stretch.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 351–363 mi (565–584 km)
- Inclination
- 37.0°
- One orbit
- 96.0 minutes15.0 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 44857
- Int’l designator
- 2019-089F
- Launched
- 2019
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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